The BBC and its utter obsession with the Olympics.

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The BBC seems to have lost the plot. Olympics all evening on BBC1 and or BBC 2. And then you look at the BBnpC news website and its full spread Olympics all over. Not even the sport page, but the News headlines page.

I think they by far overestimate people's real intrest in the games. Blanket coverage of someone's obscure sports is a npbit much in my view.

I'll watch most sports all day long, but all the other members of the family couldn't really give a hoot.
The BBC should put this on one of their fringe channels.

Now, when's the men's fencing on?

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lufbramatt said:

I love it to be honest. Two weeks every 4 years to engross yourself in random sports. And because they're not football we're often quite good at them :-)

I watched the team archery final last night, the Koreans brought their a - game and made the Americans look like amateurs!

As a sport fan I can agree. But most people aren't. Ok you'll usually have one event that you might be interested in, but not this wall to wall.

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williamp said:

well, hopefully it moves their obsession on from brexit, itself moved on from their glastonbury obsession, itself moved on from chelsea flower show etc etc

And cooking.

And cake in particular.

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Challo said:

I dont see the issue. In today's world of multiple channels, freeview, sky, box sets, films im sure you can find something else to watch.

Its one of the last free sporting events on TV, and with a multitude of sports they are trying to cover as much as possible. Also its a great way to introduce people to sports that they might never have tried or even heard of before.

Free sporting event on the only TV channel you are forced to pay for.

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55palfers said:

Just sat through a 20+ minute adulation-fest on BBC about some cyclists

Seems someone got a knighthood (no less) for riding a push-bike (albeit very quickly) a while back and is now pontificating on the performance of other cyclists.

He had ridden a bike for living. He should be good, it's all he does.

Lots of folk are good at their job for 40 years and get bugger all.

Please, please stop the deification of sports people.

They are entertainers, nothing more.

And some of them make a fortune doing it to. I do agree, knighthoods for gold medals seems a bit too much for me. Precedents seem to have been set. If your gold medal winner goes on champion causes that help the masses then yes. Some years later.

Entertainers and sportsman get very well rewarded finacially with success, but they also get gongs.

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eccles said:

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How can some of you lot be so miserable!

After the utter embarrasment of the Euro 16, its great to see us do well at other things!

Im loving the coverage and im not even remotely into sports.

I thought we did rather well at Euro16.

The semi final against Portugal was a bit disappointing mind.

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henrycrun said:

BBC gushing commentary way too patriotic. Ok we got gold. Yippee !

But do we really have to wait 15mins for the medal ceremony to discover which countries took silver and bronze ?

Here's the thing. We have many other athletes at these games that are not winning medals. Care to name any of them?

BBC is only interested in showing on the main broadcast only the events that team GB are winning medals in. Want to follow someone with less chance of being a 'hero'? You need to search the red button service and if you're lucky you might find them. Oh, and other countries are competing, but again, you only see the best of the best.